Thirty people of Nigerian nationality were arrested during two rounds of judicial police raids in June and September following a 15 month investigation. Police identified suspects who collected cash from young Nigerian women prostituting themselves in different cities across France, officers said, estimating the network laundered between €30 and €50 million ($35-58 million) in the last three years. "The collectors were moving money from Lille, Colmar, Strasbourg, Lyon, Nice, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes or Paris," said head of anti-trafficking agency OCTREH, Jean-Marc Droguet. Two Nigerian mafia gangs, the Supreme Eiye Confraternity (SEC) and Black Axe, were involved in the network, officers said. Police have so far managed to recover just a fraction of the money: €200,000 in March and €250,000 in June.

Source: The Local October 05, 2018 20:03 UTC